That’s an awesome observation!

And an inexhaustible supply of fresh marks

I hear Lazar and Richard Doty will be touring the US next year. “Relevancy Recharge”, coming to a festival near you.

The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

Hannity hugged the mascot years ago.

Yes indeed!

Angled down image of a rattlesnake, partially buried in sand and facing left. The snake’s colors match its sandy surroundings.

I’m flying home from Phoenix today after spending a few days in northern Mexico. Here’s a sidewinder rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes) observed in the light of morning at El Pinacate and Gran Altar Desert Natl Park. These are sandy habitat specialists as the photo suggests. #herps #snakes 🌿

My photo shows a Hellenistic era hemispherical mosaic glass bowl viewed from above. The glass has a floral pattern made up of tiny, many-petalled blue, white, and yellowy-green flowers against a dark purple background (looks black in my photo). The bowl has an alternating diagonal-striped black and white glass rim. The bowl has been reconstructed from fragments and the plain light blue areas are where missing glass fragments have been replaced during reconstruction. It measures 13.2 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm in height. It was made in the eastern Mediterranean about 200-100 BC.

This Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago!

Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today!

British Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

While I worked at the local university, I went fifteen years without owning a car. I biked, and took the bus if < 25F. We saved so much money, and giga-pounds of hydrocarbons! My town is terrible wrt bicycle commuting, so I had to be smart and cautious (familiar story I am sure).

"Claude, write an article that explains why you are superior to Copilot in MS Word"

If you are so paralyzed by an indecision that you need a chatbot to tell you what coffee drink to order, you probably need to check into a rehab. Also we’re gonna need a rehab for chatbot addiction. Where you have to like relearn colors and how to do laundry.

Sid had a good run. LOTL and HRP were on the Saturday morning lineup at my house. I can't say I cared much for Pufnstuf, but Land of the Lost captured my imagination.

I have so many questions

I love clearwings! In NE Peru we see the Amber Phantoms and Coral Phantoms.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

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There are too many terrific political cartoonists out there to even THINK about posting #AI slop. For example, @mluckovich.bsky.social has been creating award-winning cartoons for many years; re-post HIM.

That's just nuts. Maybe some humans were involved somehow. 😕

It got an assist from me.

Someone explain to me why people aren’t moving off Substack? I mean people who aren’t complete shitheels. (I’m not reading -any- SS posts).

Side image of a small turtle held between fingers and facing right. The ground color of the head, limbs and shell is a dark gray. The edge of the shell has a series of red spots and the lower shell (plastron) has a orangish tinge.

From yesterday, a hatchling Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta), found in an open field hundreds of feet from a wetland. This tiny turtle overwintered in the nest, waiting for spring rains before emerging from the egg (note the white egg tooth). #herps #turtles 🌿

Side image of a snake held in someone’s hand and facing right. The snake’s ground color is a brownish orange, overlaid with black squares. A pale yellow stripe runs down the back. The snake’s tongue is flicking out, mostly orange but the forked tip is black.

I had a great day today helping with herp survey work in southern Illinois. Finds included this large female eastern garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis), out basking under the warm spring sun. #herps #snakes 🌿

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

When that shoulder is itching again but your arms too short🦖

Small native bee with a black body and white bristles over its entire body. This is a side view as it is perched on a yellow petal of a Hookers balsamroot

“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. … notice it in the instant when love begins. … Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.”
~Mary Oliver,
Don't Hesitate (2010)

Halictina bee on Hookers Balsamroot

People make fun of government agencies for still being on Flickr but photos produced by the government are copyright-free and I have yet to see a better photo-centric platform for delivering higher resolution photos that anyone can easily download.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

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